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| Title |
A Direct Cortico-Nigral Pathway as Revealed by Constrained Spherical Deconvolution Tractography in Humans
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00374 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alberto Cacciola, Demetrio Milardi, Giuseppe P. Anastasi, Gianpaolo A. Basile, Pietro Ciolli, Mariangela Irrera, Giuseppina Cutroneo, Daniele Bruschetta, Giuseppina Rizzo, Stefania Mondello, Placido Bramanti, Angelo Quartarone |
| Abstract |
Substantia nigra is an important neuronal structure, located in the ventral midbrain, that exerts a regulatory function within the basal ganglia circuitry through the nigro-striatal pathway. Although its subcortical connections are relatively well-known in human brain, little is known about its cortical connections. The existence of a direct cortico-nigral pathway has been demonstrated in rodents and primates but only hypothesized in humans. In this study, we aimed at evaluating cortical connections of substantia nigra in vivo in human brain by using probabilistic constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) tractography on magnetic resonance diffusion weighted imaging data. We found that substantia nigra is connected with cerebral cortex as a whole, with the most representative connections involving prefrontal cortex, precentral and postcentral gyri and superior parietal lobule. These results may be relevant for the comprehension of the pathophysiology of several neurological disorders involving substantia nigra, such as parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, and pathological addictions. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 14 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 31% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 25% |
| Researcher | 2 | 13% |
| Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 2 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 6% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 8 | 50% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 19% |
| Psychology | 1 | 6% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 1 | 6% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 August 2016.
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